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Fraser Island – 4×4 Adventure

July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Me and my mate farting about on Fraser Island in our petite Suzuki Jimny 4×4 Jeep. As it hadn’t been raining for several weeks at the time the tracks were pretty horrendous (doesn’t really show as well in the video though), especially with such a small car, but we managed to get along. We visited Lake Wobby, Lake McKenzie, Eli Creek, Indian Head, the Champagne Pools, the wreck of the Maheno and most of the other most famous places, however due to the said poor conditions people were advised not to drive to the most southern lakes as those roads were in particularly bad shape. Dingoes roamed along the campsites at nighttime and one adult dingo came and sniffed us out at daytime as well, cheeky bastard indeed icon smile Fraser Island   4x4 Adventure Other than that, this vid has a conglomerate of different songs as I had somewhat of a hard time finding the right songs, in the end I just had to get it done.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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Tags: Trips

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Veabu84 // Jul 30, 2010 at 11:13 am

    Thanks mate :)

  • 2 ilynchy // Jul 30, 2010 at 11:29 am

    fantastic video guys

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